The
vCloud Air vSphere Client Plug-in lets you view and manage your
vCloud Air
resources in the
vSphere Web Client. It provides another user interface for
vCloud Air, one
that lets you manage your public cloud resources from an on-premise
application.

After you install the plug-in
and register your
vCloud Air
account with it, you can view all your Dedicated Cloud and Virtual Private
Cloud instances from all regions. You can browse each cloud instance and manage
its inventory of virtual data centers, virtual machines, gateways, networks,
and templates. You can create new virtual data centers (in Dedicated Cloud
instances), and manage gateways and networks. You can create new virtual
machines from the templates in your
vCloud Air
catalogs, connect them to networks, and manage them from the plug-in.

With the
vCloud Air
plug-in installed in the
vSphere Web Client, you also get a single pane of glass to manage both your
on-premise data center and your public,
vCloud Air
resources.

Note

You must have a
vCloud Air
account with an Account Administrator user role to register and use the
plug-in.

Key Features

Key features of the
vCloud Air
plug-in include the following.

■

The ability to set up your
entire
vCloud Air
environment, in the same way that you set it up in the
vCloud Air
portal after you purchase resources.

You can manage all your
storage resources from the plug-in, including allocating multiple storage tiers
to virtual data centers and virtual machines.

■

Disaster Recovery

If you purchase the
vCloud Air
Disaster Recovery service, you can manage your Disaster Recovery virtual data
center from the plug-in.

■

Synchronization between
the
vCloud Air
plug-in and portal

A notification service
ensures that the plug-in and the portal are always synchronized. Any changes
you make in the portal (with the same user name) are reflected in the plug-in.
Similarly, any changes you make in the plug-in are reflected in the portal.

■

Integrated task management

Tasks for commands that
you perform in the
vCloud Air
portal (with the same user name) appear in the
Tasks panel in the
vSphere Web Client along with tasks that you perform in the plug-in.

■

Access to the
vCloud Air
portal

From the plug-in, you can
use the
Manage
in vCloud Air Portal link to access the
vCloud Air
portal. You can log in to the portal to perform tasks that are unavailable in
the plug-in.

■

Single sign-on to
vCloud
Director

From the plug-in, you can
use the
Manage
in vCloud Director UI link to access the
vCloud
Director
instance underlying your cloud instance. You can use
vCloud
Director
to perform advanced administrative tasks.